The Gate

by Euan Cameron; Francois Bizot

François Bizot traveled to Cambodia in 1965 and was caught in the violence when the Khmer Rouge began rampaging. Taken prisoner by guerrillas who believed him to be a CIA agent, Bizot managed to escape but not without enduring the horrors of interrogation and torture. Despite his experiences, Bizot writes lyrically about the beauties of Cambodia's landscape and the sweetness of its beleaguered people. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

Editions of The Gate

ISBN 9780375727238	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Vintage Books	Date 2004	Price $6.80	Good
ISBN 9781843430568	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Harvill	Date 2003	Price $15.00	Very Good
ISBN 9781843430018	Binding/Format Book	Publisher Harvill	Date 2003	Price £1.00	Good
ISBN 9780375412936	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 2003	Price $1.00	Used - Good

Publisher Notes

“Distinguished by its intense dignity, by its unexpected attention to beauty, and by a discretion which never shades into coyness, The Gate should immediately be numbered among the great post-Second World-War memoirs of incarceration.”—Robert MacFarlane, The Guardian (London)

“Breathtaking . . . Heartbreaking and terrifying: a superb account of the madness of war, and of a people’s wholesale self-destruction.”—Kirkus

"The Gate is a thrilling, exquisitely observed and terrifying account of the world trapped in the moral cul de sac of absolute revolution. It reads like a novel and it sears both the conscience and the heart. If you only ever read one book on Cambodia, make sure it is this one." --William Shawcross, The Sunday Telegraph (London)